Over the years, Jacob’s face has often been used as the face of missing children.
Via Daily Mail:
A Minnesota man has finally confessed to abducting and killing 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling nearly 27 years ago, putting to rest a mystery that had haunted the state and led to changes in national sex offender laws.
Danny Heinrich made the admission on Tuesday as he pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge that could put him behind bars for decades.
In excruciating and disturbing detail, Heinrich told a courtroom containing his Jacob’s family the circumstances that led to the abduction, the sexual assault and murder after taking a plea deal that will land him in jail for at least 20 years.
Asked whether he abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered Jacob, Heinrich said: ‘Yes I did.’